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About this site
Remember and commemorate the survival of the Cherokee people, forcefully removed from their homelands in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee to live in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. They traveled by foot, horse, wagon, or steamboat in 1838-1839.
- Type
- National Historic Trail
- States
- Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee
- Address
- National Trails Office Regions 6, 7, & 8, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505